Real Mission Flight Planning
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Hi all,
I have some questions regarding how ‘restricted’ real combat missions would be, and how mission planning would be adjusted to this:
- When departing an airbase, would SID charts be followed for departure? If so, how would this part of the flight be planned with regards to a desired time on target? Would steerpoints be input in the DTC at various points of this charted departure?
- When in transit from friendly airspace to the mission area, would airways (such as A582 from the ferry mission described in the comms-nav-book) be utilised? If not, how are aircraft routes deconflicted?
- Finally, when returning from a mission, how restricted would a typical approach be? Are flights vectored by ATC, do they follow published charts independently, or will they fly to some IAF and then perform an overhead pattern, deconflicting traffic themselves?
I understand that inevitably things vary (airport size, density of sorties in airspace, etc) but I’m just very curious to see what a real declassified flight plan would look like.
Thanks for any input!
Nicolai
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To add to the post, the comms-nav-book on page 116 reads:
“Flight lead may elect not to follow any procedure at all and dash towards the
FLOT or simply follow his flight plan, which may be perfectly valid.”This seems like it wouldn’t fly for example during the first day of e.g. the air war in Iraq 1991
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1 - Very rarely. Only when airbase radar is out of order and/or lot of flight departing at the same time.
2 - No.
3 - For fighters most of the time they are radar vectored. -
@Nikolai said in Real Mission Flight Planning:
To add to the post, the comms-nav-book on page 116 reads:
“Flight lead may elect not to follow any procedure at all and dash towards the
FLOT or simply follow his flight plan, which may be perfectly valid.”This seems like it wouldn’t fly for example during the first day of e.g. the air war in Iraq 1991
Nope.
But I won’t discuss it -
Thanks for your insights.